Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature

• Main Author: Goh, I-Mei
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48825
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

David Adams Leeming, in Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, asserts that “the journey of life is the search for the self—for the personal myth which is veiled in the local and the immediate but which, on a deeper level, is but an expression of the world myth” (6). This essay will explore the ways in...